Word: plante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stave off creditors, Lewis shut down unprofitable operations, including a dairy plant in Switzerland, and she accelerated the divestiture program started by her husband and Fugett. She quickly jettisoned eight businesses, including ice-cream companies in Denmark, Belgium and Germany. In addition to eliminating the corporate toys, Lewis cut 500 jobs, including half the corporate staff...
...addition, Professor Franklin and others have raised money to plant a tree in Michail's memory. The tree will be planted in front of the Lyman physics building in the spring...
Those Simpsons fans among us are undoubtedly familiar with "Blinky," the three-eyed fish that frolics in the river near the Springfield nuclear power plant. But how many are aware of the six-legged frogs that are turning up all over Minnesota...
...piled ourselves into the yellow buses. Upon arrival, we immersed ourselves in the identification and classification of 15 different species of plant within a 25' x 5' yard plot. A majority of students expressed a desire to return early. Other students indulged themselves in experiments entirely separate from the exercise at hand. The virtue of impatience came into play. Indeed, were it not for a few students' deliberate prodding and urging, we might still be in Concord looking for European Pigthorn. One might conclude that this anecdote reflects not impatience but rather efficiency. It may be seen, however, that...
...aspect: it is a nonunion shop, a status that is also subject to intense discussion in local communities. Roger Myers, a county commissioner in Indiana who helped bring Toyota to Princeton, was a longtime executive of the United Mine Workers union and sees the new truck plant as a fertile ground for labor organizers. "I know the jobs have to be there before the union is there," Myers says, "but this is still a union community. I think there will be an attempt to organize the plant. Without a doubt, there will...